Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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“Still condemned to believe that some sort of Superman is going to come along and fix the lives of the stupid and pathetic? The ‘good’ people convinced of their own virtuousness? The ‘good’ people who don’t see and have no way of knowing that in the same place they’d do the same thing? Stick with the super hero comic books.”

With that, Vince got up, shook Fred’s hand, nodded to Deirdre, and they left, walking undisturbed through a throng of cops staring at ‘day gubmint issue sail foams.’

A few minutes after everyone was gone, Fred wondered why a hit man would bring along a girl on a job. He quickly realized that is what everyone does not expect and that therefore being with a girl virtually eliminates suspicion. Or, the kid wanted her to see a first hand example of what happens to snitching girl friends.

A fantasy.